Improved composition for invigorating fruit and forest trees



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Letters Patent No. 64 ,602, dated Jlag T, 1867.

IMPROVED GOMPOSITION, FOR IN'VIGORATING FRUIT AND FOREST TREES.

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TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

I, WILLIAM VERMILYA, of Dayton, Montgomery county, Ohio, have invented a new and improved Composition for Invigorating Fruit or Forest Trees, and destroyinginseots in and upon the some; and I hereby declare that the following is a. full and exact description thereof.

1 make a compound of sulphate of copper, sulphur, sa-ltpetre, and iron filings, whichI insert into the body of the tree which isto be invigorated, or in and upon which are vermin, which Ido by boring a hole in the body near the root with auauger, from a, half-inch to three-quarter anger, in proportion to the size of the tree. In the hole I put from one (1) to two ounces of the compound, and plugup the hole tight with n wooden plug.

The following is a. description of the compound: I take in the proportion of three pounds of sulphate of copper, one (1) pound of sulphur, one (1) ounce of saltpetre, all of which I pulverize separately and mix with half a pound of iron filings.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The composition of matter formed the mixture of the proportions of three pounds of sulphate of copper, one pound of sulphur, one ounce of snltpetre, and a half pound of iron filings, to be used as a. tree invigorator and destroyer of vermin which may be in and upon fruit or forest trees, as herein described. I

' WILLIAM VERMILLL Witnesses:

JOHN HOWARD, I WILLIAM C. HOWARD. 

